Mother and child

“As soon as one baby is able to toddle, it has the next one—which has put in an appearance in the interval—bound tightly on its back, and so on ad infinitum. As one author quaintly says: ‘The rearing of a poor Japanese family is a perpetual game of leapfrog.’”

Gilbert Watson, Three Rolling Stones in Japan, (London, 1904) p. 16